Rwanda scheme has already cost taxpayers £700 million, Cooper reveals | Daily Mail Online

The Rwanda deportation scheme cost Britain £700 million despite only four volunteers being sent to Kigali, Yvette Cooper has said, branding the policy the "most shocking waste of taxpayer money I have ever seen".In a statement to MPs on Monday, Ms Cooper claimed that the Tories had planned to spend more than £10 billion over six years on the Migration and Economic Development Partnership (MEDP).And she warned that high levels of small boat journeys in the English Channel are likely to persist o